Search is on for "pirate attackers" in Baltic Sea

Stockholm, July 31, SPA -- Swedish police Friday treating very
seriously reports of a mysterious presumed pirate attack on a Maltese-
registered freighter in the Baltic Sea, according to dpa.

Swedish deputy crime police chief Tommy Hydfors confirmed to the
German Press Agency dpa the report that eight heavily-armed masked
men on Friday last week boarded Finnish-owned freighter Arctic Sea
from a rubber dinghy.

According to the ship's 15-member Russian crew, the armed men
claimed to be drug enforcement agents and thoroughly searched the
ship, reacting violently to anyone who got in their way, including
using a rifle butt to knock out teeth from one crew member.
--SPA